Film · Western
Rollin' Home to Texas (1940)
Singin' Tex puts the trigger finger on crooked range politicians!
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed and Slim to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, head of an opposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red, a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy, brother of Tex's girl friend Mary, is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.
- Director
- Albert Herman
- Writers
- Robert Emmett Tansey
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- December 30, 1940
Cast
Tex RitterTex Reed- White FlashTex's Horse
Cal ShrumCal Shrum
Slim AndrewsSlim Hunkapillar
Virginia CarpenterMary Gray
Eddie DeanSheriff Eddie Dean
Jack RutherfordCarter
Minta DurfeeJosie Hunkapillar- Walt ShrumHenchman Smokey
I. Stanford JolleyRed- Charles R. PhippsUncle Jim
Harry HarveyLockwood
Olin FrancisMarshal- Rusty ClineRhythm Rangers Bass Player
- Gene HaasBand Member
- Tony FioreRhythm Rangers Musician
- Jack WilliamsBand Member
- Robert HoagRhythm Rangers Musician
- Hal BlairBand Member
Gene AlsaceHenchman
